The Beacons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADAD AAAA AAAA AEAE AAAA FGFG HAHA FIFI AHAH AJAJ| Ubens oblivious garden of indolence | A |
| Pillow of cool flesh where no man dreams of love | B |
| Where life flows forth in troubled opulence | A |
| As airs in heaven and seas in ocean move | C |
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| Leonard Da Vinci sombre and fathomless glass | A |
| Where lovely angels with calm lips that smile | D |
| Heavy with mystery in the shadow pass | A |
| Among the ice and pines that guard some isle | D |
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| Rembrandt sad hospital that a murmuring fills | A |
| Where one tall crucifix hangs on the walls | A |
| Where every tear drowned prayer some woe distils | A |
| And one cold wintry ray obliquely falls | A |
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| Strong Michelangelo a vague far place | A |
| Where mingle Christs with pagan Hercules | A |
| Thin phantoms of the great through twilight pace | A |
| And tear their shroud with clenched hands void of ease | A |
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| The fighter's anger the faun's impudence | A |
| Thou makest of all these a lovely thing | E |
| Proud heart sick body mind's magnificence | A |
| Puget the convict's melancholy king | E |
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| Watteau the carnival of illustrious hearts | A |
| Fluttering like moths upon the wings of chance | A |
| Bright lustres light the silk that flames and darts | A |
| And pour down folly on the whirling dance | A |
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| Goya a nightmare full of things unknown | F |
| The foetus witches broil on Sabbath night | G |
| Old women at the mirror children lone | F |
| Who tempt old demons with their limbs delight | G |
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| Deacroix lake of blood ill angels haunt | H |
| Where ever green o'ershadowing woods arise | A |
| Under the surly heaven strange fanfares chaunt | H |
| And pass like one of Weber's strangled sighs | A |
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| And malediction blasphemy and groan | F |
| Ecstasies cries Te Deums and tears of brine | I |
| Are echoes through a thousand labyrinths flown | F |
| For mortal hearts an opiate divine | I |
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| A shout cried by a thousand sentinels | A |
| An order from a thousand bugles tossed | H |
| A beacon o'er a thousand citadels | A |
| A call to huntsmen in deep woodlands lost | H |
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| It is the mightiest witness that could rise | A |
| To prove our dignity O Lord to Thee | J |
| This sob that rolls from age to age and dies | A |
| Upon the verge of Thy Eternity | J |
Charles Baudelaire
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